Directs Technology for OpenContext.org
Tries to work for anti-authoritarian, public good goals, especially with appropriately scoped open data and open science […]
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Eric Kansa
The SpaceX IPO demonstrates that something is fundamentally broken with markets.
This is insanity that will impoverish us all.
Eric Kansa
I'm not in the habit of reading Papal encyclicals, but this one seems like a must read:
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
I'm still early in wading through this, but I appreciate its emphasis on the socio-politcal dangers of power […]
RE: https://flipboard.com/@rollingstone/tv-movies-obm3v418z/-/a-u0JZpo-kQ8aaeBiHwS7tUQ%3Aa%3A3199477-%2F0
Oh no! This is very sad!
[USpol]
It's delicious watching Trump's name come off the Kennedy Center. I know it's a small thing considering all the other ongoing evils, but this matters so much to his narcissism.
Normally this kind of thing happens AFTER a dictator dies or gets overthrown.
Live stream is here […]
Eric Kansa
Eric Kansa
This is good https://shannon.chrishwiggins.com/
Ugh #Bots
The #AI_bubble fuels annoying and costly extraction of #openaccess resources, including #opendata in #archaeology research.
Open Context (https://opencontext.org) is now getting slammed with 3x more traffic than normal.
The financial fallout of […]
[Original post on scholar.social]
RE: https://sfba.social/@eniatitova/116733288977884427
Another bit of disturbing #LLM news that gives strong vibes of (wink): "totally not an #AI bubble"
RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@HelenBranswell/116535013413077550
Great. Just great. With the orange guy in charge again, I'm sure this is fine.
In the end, we managed to avoid feature degradation in the latest #XRONOS release, aimed at mitigating abuse from bots and AI crawlers:
https://xronos.ch/news/xronos-v121-stability-curation-workflows-and-infrastructure-hardening
We'll see if these performance improvements will be enough. So […]
